pictures by Dominique Marc Wehrli

:mlzd is an architecture studio based in Bienne (Switzerland). In 2002, they won the project for the extension of the Wettingen School which consist to built a new cafeteria while respecting the existing building.

The old cafeteria of the Wettingen School was too small, due to constantly raising pupil number. :mlzd projected the new cafeteria according to the typology of the existing buildings.

The building envelope, composed of a homogeneous coverage of black anodized aluminum sheets, plays with the light that seeps between the silhouettes of the flowers and leafs cutout of the aluminum sheets. The new cafeteria has a rural character and part of a the conceptual and formal analogy with the traditional farm, which makes the volume, types and structural features of the interior space.

found via coolboom.com

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